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The Environmental Protection Agency is planning at least three agencywide mandatory furlough days through the end of the fiscal year if sequestration goes into effect, according to union officials who say they were briefed on agency plans. EPA also will implement employee furloughs in two phases, according to John J. O'Grady, the president of AFGE Local 704, which covers the Chicago region.

They (and all other federal employees) won't be buying gas that they won't be using to drive to work. They won't be spending money in DC on lunch, getting less dry cleaning, and spending money ELSEWHERE if they take those days and go elsewhere (by then, Ocean City will be nice enough).

Lets hope thes EPA fools are furloughed for 100 days. Less regs and rules they can write and less people they can harass about wetlands and pollution. I say cut them 33% every year until they are dismantled.

Hey "fool" you do realize that EPA just enforces the environmental laws that Congress passes. They don't the "write regs and rules."
Taking your anger out on a federal employee that is just doing their job to make the environment better for everyone serves no constructive purpose.
These same folks are your neighbors and fellow taxpayers. Cutting their pay or "dismantling" them out of a job will only take more money out of the overall economy and trickle down to the local businesses and services they patronize.
Your attitiude is akin to cutting off your nose just to spite your face.

I didn't know dinosaurs could type. Why don't you move to China so you can see the result of no air and water regs. Uninformed (ahem) "people" like you are the reason we are heading for sequester in the first place.